Senate Education approves legislation to allow every family to apply for state dollars to pay for private school tuition or other education-related expenses. Bill co-author Carencro Representative Julie Emerson says parents should have options on how their child should be educated…
The Louisiana School Boards Association strongly opposes the creation of education savings accounts. Dannie Garrett, who handles government relations for the association and says E-S-As spend taxpayer dollars without the accountability that demanded for public schools and there’s no evidence it will improve a child’s education.
The Public Affairs Research Council says the L-A Gator Scholarship Program would cost 650-million dollars annually in five to seven years.
House Education approves a bill to repeal state laws requiring educators to take certain training courses like CPR and dating violence and allow BESE to decide the requirements. Rosepine Representative Charles Owens wants BESE to govern which educational courses teachers must take and take it out of state law.
The proposed legislation repeals requirement and authorizes BESE to adopt policies that require inclusion of certain topics in student instruction and in the training of teachers.
The bill now advances to the House.